With love and luck and a sensitive teacher ... that resides in words, and poetry’s unique power to touch us. Students in the classrooms Collom visits write acrostic poems, lunes, William ...

Earlier this year, poet Richard Blanco issued a challenge to Boston Public Radio listeners: Write an acrostic poem about your town, and share it with us. Many listeners did, capturing snapshots of ...

But this is no ordinary poem. This is an acrostic. So there is something special going on. You see? That's the secret of an acrostic. The first letter of each line spells out the word STAR.

Brian P. Cleary, illus. by Andy Rowland. Lerner/Millbrook, $6.95 paper (32p) ISBN 978-1-4677-8107-7 Humorous acrostic poems are the focus of this addition to the Poetry Adventures series ...